Accommodation in Žabljak

This apartment sits in the centre of Žabljak, Montenegro's highest town and the main base for exploring the northern mountain region. The ground-floor unit measures 57 m² plus a terrace and stands about 300 m from Čudna Šuma, just above the local school — an easy walk to the shops, cafés and bus connections in the town centre. Inside there is an entrance hall, a living room, a kitchen fitted with a stove and mini bar, a bedroom and a bathroom, with a French bed made up for two guests. Guests also have use of the shared yard and grill, and one dedicated parking space comes with the booking. It suits a couple or two friends visiting Žabljak for hiking, skiing or day trips into the surrounding national park. Rates start from 47 EUR per night.

About the area

A few hundred metres from the centre of town lies Čudna šuma — the strange forest — a stand of conifers twisted and stunted by wind and snow into shapes that look almost deliberate. It is the local afternoon walk: flat, easy, five minutes from the last shops, and in winter threaded with cross-country tracks. Around it the plateau spreads out at roughly 1,450 metres, the Durmitor ridgeline closing the horizon to the west and the road to Crno jezero leaving town in the same direction.

North the ground falls away into the Tara canyon, some 1,300 metres deep and the longest in Europe, spanned by the stone arches of the Đurđevića Tara bridge — a half-hour drive that takes in viewpoints, a zipline across the gorge and the rafting put-ins used through spring and summer. Back in town the centre keeps everything within a short walk: supermarkets, bakeries, grill places serving lamb and kačamak, and the agencies selling jeep tours into the park. The altitude means cool nights even in August, and a clear morning here has a light the coast simply does not get.